approximate submission deadlines: September: ICSE papers September--October: POPL satellite (PEPM, PLPV, PADL) papers September--November: EuroSys papers October: AOSD papers October: ETAPS main event paper deadlines (ESOP, FASE, TACAS, CC) November: WWW conference papers November: PLDI papers November: VEE papers December: ECOOP conference papers January: ICSE workshop papers January: HotOS papers January: Usenix ATC papers January: ISMM papers February: ISSTA papers February: TOOLS workshop February: PASTE papers (when PLDI co-lo'd -- in years congruent to 1, modulo 3) March: VL/HCC papers March: FSE conference papers March: SOSP conference papers (odd-numbered years) March: SAS papers March: CAV papers March: Onward!/OOPSLA papers April: ECOOP workshop papers April: Middleware conference papers April: PASTE papers (when FSE co-lo'd -- in years congruent to 2, modulo 3) May: GPCE papers May: OSDI papers (even-numbered years) May--June: DLS papers May--June: RV papers May--July: FSE workshop papers July: Onward! short papers (** now seem to use normal March/April SPLASH deadline) July: OOPSLA workshop papers July: POPL papers August: ASPLOS conference papers (odd-numbered years) August: VMCAI papers approximate notification dates: WWW papers: January CAV papers: January PADL papers: September PASTE papers: March (when PLDI co-lo'd -- in years congruent to 1, modulo 3) PASTE papers: May (when FSE co-lo'd -- in years congruent to 2, modulo 3) POPL satellite (PEPM, PLPV, PADL) papers: November PLDI papers: late January / early February OOPSLA/Onward! papers: May POPL papers: late September / early October ISMM papers: March ISSTA papers: April FSE papers: early June RV papers: July SAS papers: May VEE papers: late January VMCAI papers: October (FIXME: others to fill in) approximate event dates: POPL: January ASPLOS: March (even-numbered years) AOSD: March--April ETAPS: March--April EuroSys: March--April WWW: April HotOS: May (odd-numbered years) ICSE: May Coordination: June Usenix ATC: June ISMM: June PLDI: June TOOLS: June--July ISSTA: July ECOOP: July CAV: July VL/HCC: September FSE: September--November SPLASH (OOPSLA/Onward!): October GPCE: October RV: September--November SAS: September SOSP: October--November (odd-numbered years) OSDI: November (even-numbered years) Middleware: November--December interesting workshops which move around: PLOS (has been at SOSP, ASPLOS, ...) VISSOFT (has been at ICPC, ICSE, ...) WCAT (has been at ECOOP, ASE, ...) to add: IFIP DAIS? visualisation: PVW (ITiCSE co-lo?) possibly of future interest: maintenance, evolution etc.: CSMR, ICSM EUSE workshop (end-user software engineering) conferences on open-source stuff? apparently defunct: JMLC (Joint Modular Languages Conference) ICSR SIGOPS European workshop journals: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology ACM Software Engineering Notes (mostly for short note-style papers) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering The Science of Computer Programming Journal of Systems and Software